City Hall and Vicinity, New York City, 1899 chicago ads poster President Abraham Lincoln and His

President Abraham Lincoln and His Generals 1884 a posthumous group portrait assembled nearly two decades after Appomattox

The scene catches her mid-passage

an act of Gilded Age remembrance dressed as biography

the engraver's hand hurrying to keep pace with a war already writing itself into legend

City Hall and Vicinity, New York City, 1899 chicago ads poster President Abraham Lincoln and HisCity Hall and Vicinity, New York City, 1899 surveys lower Manhattan at the close of the century, the old Federal style hall hemmed in by the rising commercial blocks of a city already outgrowing its civic heart. A documentary view rendered with the surveyor's patience for cornices, awnings, and the ordinary geometry of municipal life. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the